VFX Keying

Blue-screen and green-screen keying is the bread and butter of visual effects compositing. Every VFX artist must master this complex subject to succeed in the industry. This course offers 12 hours of the most comprehensive and detailed training ever produced on the subject of keying, covering literally every aspect of the job. You can follow along with NUKE, the software featured in the videos, or with any other compositing software that offers floating-point math. NUKE master trainer Steve Wright introduces several overall compositing workflows, as well as a myriad of tips and tricks and several keying techniques never before published. Learn about green-screen, blue-screen, luma, and saturation keys; spill suppression; color correction; edge refinement; and more. Plus, get a bonus appendix chapter of tutorials on keyers such as KEYLIGHT, Primatte, Ultimatte, and others.

Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Keying Workflows
• 2. Pre-Processing the Green Screen
• 3. Other Types of Keys
• 4. Building the Uber Key
• 5. Spill Suppression
• 6. Compositing Techniques
• 7. Color Correcting
• 8. Workflow Examples
• 9. Sweetening the Comp
• 10. Fixing Edge Problems
• 11. Special Keying Solutions
• 12. Appendix: Keyer Tutorials